[DUG] Resizing forms

[Rob van der Linde]

Yeah this kind of sucks a bit with the way Delphi and the Windows UI was
designed, where controls are absolutely positioned and with an absolute
size (Not Delphi's fault, but Windows really). If people change their
fonts to Extra Large, or even worse if people change the Font DPI
itself, it screws up many Delphi apps of mine. The Windows UI has been
designed WRONG, it is not multi DPI friendly.

I have been experimenting with GTK+ (v2.x) in Freepascal (not using
Lazarus, just using the GTK+ units directly), and found GTK+ has been
designed in a much better way than Windows, I.E. controls having to be
placed inside other controls such as layout grids, then let the OS do
all the sizing and positioning. This is a similar approach to Java for
those of you that have done some Java stuff. Surely it takes a bit
longer to make your GUI forms that way, but at least you know it will
work with different font sizes. Well, it's not that Delphi will get
redesigned to that approach in a hurry anyway (or at all, being already
too late), but it's still interesting indeed.

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:24 +1200, Sean Cross - CRM wrote:
> Following the recent discussion about large fonts, I came across this
> article.
>  
> http://delphi.about.com/od/standards/a/aa030700a.htm
>  
> Regards
> 
> Sean
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